Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02

your own eyes, and from what you have
heard with your own ears, is there power
in this Gospel to give calmness and
triumph in the last exigency? The re-
Spouse comes from oil sides, from young,
and old, and middle aged: 1--WE are wit
nesses!"
You see, my friends, I have not put be-
fore you m abstraction, or q chimera. or
anything like guess work. l present you
atiidavits of the best men and women, liv-
ing and dead. Two witnesses in court will
establish a fact. Here are not two wit
nesses but thousands of witnesses-on earth
millions Of witnesses, and in Heaven o
great multitude of witnesses that no man
can number, testifying that there is power
in this religion to convert the soul, to give
comfort in trouble, and to afford composure
in the last hour.
If ten men should come to you when you
are sick with appalling sickness, and say
they had the same sickness, and took q
certain medicine, and it cured them, you
would probably take it. Now. suppose ten
other men should come up and say: 1--WE
don't believe there is ANYTHING in that
medicine" "Well," say, "haye YOU ever
tried it?" "No. never tried it, but don't
believe there is anything init" OF course
you discredit their testimony. The skeptic
may come and say: "There is no power in
your religion" Have you ever tried it,"
*No, mo-" "Then avaunt!" LII me take the
testimony Of the millions Of souls that have
been converted to God and oomforted in
trial and solaced in the lost hour. We will
take their testimony as they c,y: .We ore
Witnessed"
Seine time ago Prof. Henry, of wash-
ington, discovered a new star, and the tid-
cY,od hv cv1hs,, riuo al nh, onH oil
the observatories of Europe we're Watching
for that new star. Oh, hearer, looking out
through the darkness of you, soul, canst
thou see bright light beaning on thee?
sWhere?" you say, swhere? How can I
find it," Look along by he line of the
cross of the Son of God. d. you not see
It trembling with all tenderness and BEAM
ing with all hope? 1t is the star of Bethle-
hem.
Deep horror then my vitals roze,
Death struck. 1ceased theide 10 stem.
When suddenly star arose
1t was the Star OF Bethlehem.
Oh, hearer, get your eye on it. It is
easier for you now to become Christians
than it is to stay away fpm Christ and
Heaven. When Nine. So,tag began her
musical career she was hiss.d off the stage
at Vienna by the friends of her rival,
Amelia Steininger, who hat already begun
to decline through her diss pation. Years
passed on, and one day Nine. Sontag, in
her glory, was riding through the streets of
Berlin, when she saw little child leading
blind woman, and she SAIL "Come here,
my little child, come here Who is that
you are leading by the hsnd?" And the
little child replied: "Tha's my mother;
that's Amelia Steininger. She used to be
great singer, but she lott her voice, and
she cried SO much about it hat she lost her
eyesight." "Give my lovs to her." said
Nine. Sontag, land tell aer an old &C.
quaintance will call on her this afternoon.
The next week in Berlin vast assem-
blage gathered at benefit for that peor
blind woman, and it was said that Nine.
Sontag sang that night as she had never
sung before. And she took skilled
occulist, who in vain tried to give eyesight
to the poor blind woman. Until the day of
Amelia Steininger's death Nine. Sontae
took care of her and her daughter after
her. That was what the queen Of song did
for her enemy.
But, oh! hear more thrilling story still.
Blind, immortal, poor, and lost-thou who,
when the world and Christ were rivals fol
thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away-Chriet
comes now to give thee sight, to give thee
home, TO give thee Heaven. With more
than Sontag's generosity He come now ia
meet your need. With more than Son-
tags music He comes to plead for thy de-
liverance.